KNOW YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

 Sir,

As a teacher, I’ve took time to question the roles we play as stakeholders of a school. To unburden those unfamiliar with the term ‘stakeholders’, these are people who form part of a school. For the sake of this letter, my focus will only rest on teachers, parents and pupils.

I’ve come to believe that a school, either big or small, should serve its purpose, which is to equip learners with appropriate knowledge, skills and wisdom necessary to live and lead a life of self-assurance, dignity and prosperity.
To achieve such a handful task, it takes more than the children to wake up and make way to school to find an educator who is ready to assist them discover their competencies.

Present

The pupils’ role is to present themselves to be educated. They have to look and behave like pupils. Looks come with questioning carefully what you’ve dressed; if it’s clean, if it fits you properly and how it presents you to your teacher and peers, before you leave your mirror at home.

Behaviour, on the other hand, has to do with commitment; ensuring that you are always at school on time, you do your duties as required and you seek help whenever necessary. Most importantly, you show respect and submission to your teachers.
Teachers are currently the pillars of the education system. Teachers never rest, even though their work is taken lightly. Besides being educators, their role overflows to being parents; guardians; nurses; motivators; priests and so on. In short, they cater for all the needs of a pupil.

By normality, a child should be at school from six to 17 years, and during this phase the learners spend most of their time at school than at home.

Responsible

This means that teachers become more responsible for the greater part of the children’s growth than parents. Teachers spend sleepless nights trying to come up with constructive means to ensure children are moulded in the right direction every day they set their foot in school.

Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if parents/guardians take time to question their role in the education of their children.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I’ve come to note that parents seem to be convinced that their role to the education of their bundles of joy ends with providing school necessities and settling all school-related fees.
With now that most is being done by government through free primary education, parents have most of the load lifted off their shoulders. Parents have become busy to check the progress of their children’s schoolwork; if they did attend school; what they’ve learnt and if they’ve done their homework.

Discipline

Children have lost love for school and discipline because their parents don’t ask how they do at school, relationship with teachers and what their children lack.
Parents are only quick to respond to collect end-of-term reports, expecting only good results.

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